2018 is the 30th anniversary of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the world’s premiere TV show where a human and some robots make fun of bad movies. To celebrate that and the show’s upcoming new season on Netflix, current MST3K host Jonah Ray is going on another tour, but this time he’s bringing a very special guest: Old …
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For MSTies, Thanksgiving is about Mitchell and Manos: The Hands Of Fate as much as it is about turkey and cranberry sauce. Yes, the traditional Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day marathon just wrapped up its 11th edition on Shout Factory TV, and with it comes an exciting bit of news: MST3K: The Return has been…
For Mystery Science Theater 3000, 2017 was, in a word, huge. In April, the movie-riffing show awoke from an 18-year hibernation, carving up 14 fresh cinematic turkeys for Netflix and opening up a whole new comedic universe of crab hats, talking chimps, and hyperlocal monster myths. That was followed by a North…
The link between geek culture and drinking culture was established well before the pub quiz of the same name, and Brooklyn’s The Way Station, a.k.a. “The Doctor Who bar,” may be its ultimate expression. Aside from the TARDIS-shaped bathroom, the bar offers a rotating menu of themed cocktails named after owner Andy…
A new era began earlier this year with the release of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return on Netflix, and now it looks like another era is coming to an end. Shout! Factory has been helping to bridge the gap between “keep circulating the tapes” and “now streaming on Netflix” for several years now, steadily…
TV editor Erik Adams is watching season 11 of Mystery Science Theater 3000—yeah, he can’t believe it either. After he watches an episode, he’ll post his impressions here.
There is nothing more galling to loyal fans, more creatively bankrupt, more wholly unnecessary than the “revamp”—taking a beloved property and giving it a splashy makeover that renders it nigh-unrecognizable, all in the patently desperate hope to appeal to a new audience and extend its lifespan. Except maybe,…
Twitch is getting kind of meta with its next TV marathon. In the not-too-distant future—June 26 at 11:00 a.m. PT, to be exact—Amazon’s ever-expanding livestreaming platform will host six straight days of classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. Shout! Factory, the distribution company that owns the rights to the…
Following Mystery Science Theater 3000’s successful Kickstarter campaign and subsequent return from The Great TV Beyond, Jonah and the bots are hitting the road. As series creator Joel Hodgson told The A.V. Club, MST3K will bring its movie-riffing act to 29 cities in this summer’s Watch Out For Snakes Tour, with…
Season 11 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 made big Netflix stars out of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, so they’ve more than earned the right to talk back to their new digital overlords. They started by riffing one of the streaming service’s biggest hits, and now they’re sitting down with Netflix CCO (pronounced,…
The first new Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes in almost 20 years arrived on the internet today, courtesy of original creator Joel Hodgson and Netflix. But if you haven’t had time yet to dip into a full 90-minute episode, the show’s new team of riffers have a bite-sized treat for streaming fans: a takedown of a…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, April 14 and Saturday, April 15. All times are Eastern.
Joel Hodgson wants feedback about the new Mystery Science Theater 3000. We’re in the lounge at the Music Box Theatre, the historic Chicago movie house where Hodgson has just screened the first episode of the movie-riffing series’ 11th season, which comes to Netflix on April 14. If the laughter seemed especially robust…
When Jonah Ray was tasked with finding the new voices for MST3K automatons Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, he knew just who to pick: the guys sitting behind him in this video.
The original run of Mystery Science Theater 3000 spanned multiple broadcast formats (UHF and cable) and broadcasters (Twin Cities station KTMA, The Comedy Channel, Comedy Central, Syfy) for 11 seasons, totaling 197 episodes—“experiments” in the terminology of its in-show search for the worst movie ever made. Thanks to…
When Netflix revives a beloved TV series, it doesn’t always provide the primary evidence for why that show was beloved in the first place. Gilmore Girls’ popularity on the platform was a contributing factor in Netflix ordering Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life, but Fuller House was not preceded by the acquisition of…
It’s not just the voices of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo that have changed—there’s a whole new method to puppeteering on display in the 11th season of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Netflix has just announced the release date for the upcoming Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival, posting via Facebook that Jonah and the Bots will be heading back to the Satellite of Love on April 14. To accompany the news, the streaming service also released a full cast photo for the revived show, featuring host…
The answer may surprise you—and give new meaning to the phrase “Sophie’s choice.”
